Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is here, and today's keynote saw a number of VR-specific announcements including Apple's first VR-ready computers to go along with the launch of the company's newest macOS High Sierra. While the company is finally...

At today’s annual Google I/O developer conference, Clay Bavor, VP of Virtual Reality at Google, announced a new augmented reality service called Visual Positioning Service, the latest development for the Tango platform that promises to not only precisely map...

While virtual reality surely has high performance requirements to maintain a comfortable experience, immersive AR may ultimately require a greater level of performance if we're to achieve the theoretical ideal. While virtual reality can get away with comfortable and immersive...

Outside of a few demonstrations at tradeshows, Meta has only give glimpses of the content on its impressive AR headset dev kit in short clips. During a recent visit to the company's Silicon Valley headquarters to catch the latest...

This year's 2017 Google Play Awards include new categories for top VR and AR apps, to which Google has nominated five apps each. The award ceremony will take place on Thursday, May 18th at 6:30PM PT during Google I/O,...

Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, as-ever delivered an inspiring presentation at today’s F8 conference, this time on the topic of Augmented Reality. AR has received top billing at this year’s event, with Facebook introducing a camera-based platform to...

Regina Dugan, VP of Engineering at Facebook's Building 8 skunkworks and former head of DARPA, took the stage today at F8, the company's annual developer conference, to highlight some of the research into brain-computer interfaces going on at the...

F8, Facebook's yearly developer conference, is here again for a two-day info blast from the world's biggest social platform. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today during the keynote address to announce a new initiative that will...

According to UBS analyst Steven Milunovich, Apple could have over 1,000 engineers working on Augmented Reality technology in Israel, mostly at its major R&D centre in Herzliya. Milunovich maintains Apple might introduce AR features similar to Google’s Tango in the...

Although the Samsung Galaxy S8 may not make its big entrance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week, the company will however be presenting a few new VR/AR projects coming direct from their in-house incubator Creative Lab (C-Lab). Just recompense?...

Volumetric video specialists 8i have announced their latest series B funding round has netted them a further $27 while also unveiling Holo, a mixed reality video app, powered by Google's Tango technology. We first reported on 8i back in 2015,...

Augmented reality is conceptually so broad, there's almost no limit to what you could imagine doing with the technology. But rather than throwing out the playbook entirely, we'll to our grand visions through useful incremental steps that begin with integration...

Steve Jobs once said to a gathering of senior advisers that when it came to the first iPhone, “we’re going to patent it all,” (New York Times reports). While Apple has certainly changed in the years since Job's passing,...

Holo-this, holo-that. Holograms are so bamboozling that the term often gets used colloquially to mean 'fancy-looking 3D image', but holograms are actually a very specific and interesting method for capturing light field scenes which have some real advantages over...

At CES 2017, Lumus is demonstrating its latest waveguide optics which achieve a 55 degree field of view from optics less than 2mm thick, potentially enabling a truly glasses-sized augmented reality headset. Israel-based Lumus has been working on transparent optics...